Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject: Weir Street, Kingston
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The Dock Engine & Boiler Works was built in stages between 1864 and 1894 for W King & Co, engineers, boilermakers and steamship builders. Immediately to the south was a wire-weaving factory built in 1891 and extended in 1899 for George Christie Ltd, wireworkers.
This shows the factories from the south-west. The four-storey block and the crow-stepped gabled building are the wire-weaving factory, built in 1891 and 1899 respectively. To the left is the Dock works, with is buildings forming a U-plan complex.
In 1966 the Dock works was occupied by a firm of haulage contractors, and the wire-weaving factory was a rope warehouse. Christies had moved to a larger works in Broomloan Road, Govan in 1908. In 1902 Darroch & Espie, wood and iron shipwrights, boat builders etc were in the Dock works.
James H _________________ The blinding obvious is what you showed to me.....
Starting from Scotland St at the bottom, if you go up Weir St as highlighted then turn first right you'll see two tenements with a gap between them. That gap was Ardgowan Place, a ticketed slum full of Irish immigrants that ran all the way north to the next street. My mother's family came from here and she can remember turning into that gap to go up the lane.
Here's Ardgowan Place from the Virtual Mitchell. Those doors on the open landings are the outside toilets. Bet it was freezing in there at 3am with your drawers round your ankles!
Hi fjiord, great photos of The Kingson area.
The photo showing industrial premises, is that Weir st ?
Bye for now, norrie _________________ Bye for now, Norrie
I remember the buildings in James`s pic and the second pic of fjords shows the high backs on Weir street backing onto the swingpark between Weir st and Pollok st with the church middle left. _________________ I was in a Tunnel on another forum and I came out here. fcuk, who shut the door !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53271524@N00/
I reckon that's Howden engineering on Scotland Street in the upper photo
Yip, you can just see the last garden in Pollok St on the left there. _________________ I was in a Tunnel on another forum and I came out here. fcuk, who shut the door !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53271524@N00/
I was talking of the photo showing work getting done on the road and a chimney, what street is that
Bye for now, norrie _________________ Bye for now, Norrie
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